National experts

The Consortium for the study "Monitoring eAccessibility in Europe" has selected two national experts in digital accessibility by European countries: a technical expert and an expert in politics (regulations, laws, processes, accessible digital market, public and private sector ...) .

The term eAccessibility (Accessibility) in this study concerns the accessibility of all hardware, software, information systems and digital services (eg websites, and mobile phones, computers, ATMs, television ...).

The list of national experts for e-Accessibility is available online. For France, Pierre Guillou ( Ideose ) was chosen as an expert in politics (note: the BrailleNet was chosen for the technical part).

Presentation

The study " Monitoring eAccessibility in Europe "(Observatory of eAccessibility in Europe) is a project funded by the European Commission which has the general objective to monitor the status and progress of eAccessibility in series of European countries (Member States and third countries):

• identifying best practices in the areas of legislation, policies and practices
• providing a direct and active interaction between the actors involved in the implementation and evaluation of real-accessibility
• by identifying, developing and implementing a benchmarking framework in monitoring progress in e-accessibility in time and between countries.

The study "Monitoring eAccessibility in Europe" aims to contribute to the development and implementation of the policy of the EU e-accessibility in providing useful information on approaches, practices and impact measures to promote e-accessibility. In particular, the measures taking into consideration the interests of end users and other relevant aspects such as competitiveness and market forces are identified and analyzed.

Communication on the results

The study "Monitoring eAccessibility in Europe" will result in a report to the European Commission. This report will be released upon confirmation.

Consortium

The study "Monitoring eAccessibility in Europe" is conducted by a consortium coordinated by Technosite (ONCE Foundation) in partnership with NOVA and CNIPA and in collaboration with I2BC, The Blanck Group and CDLP-NUI.

Financing by the European Commission

This study is funded by the European Commission (DG Information Society and Media, Unit H.3 'ICT for Inclusion').